SICKLY

adj. 1 See sick, 2, above. 2 ailing, feeble, delicate, wan, weak, pallid, pale, drawn, peaked, peaky, peakish Jennie looks sickly and must build up her resistance 3 mushy, mawkish, maudlin, cloying, insipid, weak, watery The sickly sentimentality of the episode about the boy and his lost puppy was unbearable